explorations in magic
for stories with magical explorations into magic. interesting, vivid, analytical - at best, explorations of magic help you question or love the human condition
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- house magic
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Draco Malfoy dies on a Wednesday.
Hermione Granger hates Wednesdays. Can’t imagine dying on one. Hump day. Middle of the week. Neither the weekend nor a particularly interesting weekday. There’s never anything exceptional to be excited about.
After the war, all Hermione Granger wants is to forget everything that happened and sink into her studies. Unfortunately for her, she stumbles upon something she’s not supposed to and gets stuck, forced to relive the day Draco Malfoy dies. To break free, she must join forces with her enemy and descend into a world governed by secret magical societies and discover the killer before it’s too late. Blood magic, rituals, secrets and lies — welcome to the Wizarding world’s dark underbelly. Not everyone can make it out alive.
A character study on life after war and the way it shapes us.
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Ministry Directive 32
To ensure moving past any and all lingering Blood-purity views, all Pureblood wizards and witches are henceforth forbidden from marrying other Purebloods.
Unmarried Purebloods who have aided, abetted and otherwise were tied to the Death Eater movement, are furthermore obliged to, without exception (unless it involves Directive 24), marry a Muggleborn. They have one year to find adequate spouses. Non-compliance with Directive 32 will result in a fine of 150.000 Galleons and 5 years’ incarceration in Azkaban.
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“I understand.” Lucius Malfoy folded his hands on his cane and sat straighter. “As you may have noticed, Directive 32 has some of my former associates in a bit of a tizzy.”
Hermione snorted before she could help herself. Lucius blinked at her as if she had spat on the floor. “Apologies, please continue,” she said.
“Ah, well… I have come to you with an opportunity. As I have been told, you receive dozens of proposals a day. In person as well as in the form of letters. Were you to agree to my proposition, that would all go away.”
“And what exactly are you asking of me, Mister Malfoy?”
“In short, to marry my son and thus keeping him out of Azkaban.” -
smoke signals by blue_keyboard
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter - Fandom
12 Jan 2026
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Voldemort gives Draco Malfoy a task, but it isn't finishing off Dumbledore. In the summer before sixth year, a reluctant Draco shows up in Hermione Granger's muggle suburb to warn her that he has been sent to kill her and her family. Everything changes.
A Hogwarts/Wartime/Aftermath three-book epic. Book I and II now complete.
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- Part 1 of you must have been looking for me
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Hermione, a world-class healer, is given the task of rousing Draco Malfoy from his mysterious coma, but to bring him back from the depths of his own mind, she must first survive it.
(Dramione vs The Dead Fest)
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Everything I Know (About Love) by honeymilkplanet (orphan_account)
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
21 Jun 2025
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Hermione Granger knows everything.
Except this: when she accepts a bet to seduce her onetime enemy Draco Malfoy, hoping to enliven an otherwise uneventful eighth year at Hogwarts, she will tangle the web of Fate more intricately than either of them could ever imagine.
Draco Malfoy knows everything—about love.
Born with the rare gift of seeing the red threads that bind soulmates to each other, he’s known, since the day he met Hermione Granger, that she is his soulmate. More than this: he knows who her soulmate is—and it's not him.
But Draco has never been one to accept what he's given. And as he returns to Hogwarts after the war for his eighth year—disgraced and friendless, but more determined than ever—he's decided that destiny can go to hell.
Even if he can't have forever, he'll steal whatever time with Hermione he can...
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Scary Partner Privilege by Nightbloom7 for Maï Maktês (maimaktes)
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
22 Sep 2023
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Hermione and Draco are forced into an extremely reluctant partnership as Aurors. Featuring deviously clever Hermione and sarcastic cinnamon roll Draco (who is hiding a hairy, overlarge secret). Together they solve crime, get in trouble and, eventually, pine for each other such as the idiots they are.
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Best friends, — yes, they really are best friends, let’s not dwell — Hermione and Draco, in the middling of their third year at Hogwarts and on the cusp of the New Year, fall into a pond located on the Malfoy estate.
What follows is a little bit of panic, a little bit of squabble, a smidge of theorizing and... a lark.
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- Part 1 of Memento
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Hermione, a world-class healer, is given the task of rousing Draco Malfoy from his mysterious coma, but to bring him back from the depths of his own mind, she must first survive it.
(Dramione vs The Dead Fest)
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Everything We Left Unsaid by alexandra_emerson, onebedtorulethemall
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
30 Sep 2025
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When you put down your quill, you remain the same opinionated, intelligent, determined person who writes me these letters. You don’t hide yourself; the world has hidden you.
As for me—I set mine down and pick up a mask, and I wear it until I can’t remember how to take it off.
Do I hate what I’ve become? Maybe. Does that matter? Will that absolve me?
Am I fooling myself or you?
-Your enemy, I think
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Five years after the war, Draco Malfoy keeps his life small: a London flat, a forgettable Ministry job, and a policy of avoiding literally everyone. It’s working—he’s stable, if still sarcastic as hell—right up until Hermione Granger shows up to ruin his lunch.
Now a Ministry Investigator, she “requests” his help searching Malfoy Manor for a dangerous artifact…one the last Death Eaters are also hunting. But when a routine inspection turns into something far more tangled—surfacing long-buried truths—they’ll have to confront who they were and who they might become.
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Or, Draco got therapy and space after the war. He's still an arse but is trying to be a better person when he reconnects with Hermione in an unexpected way.
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Slow Burn/Fast Physical • Enemies(ish)-to-Partners • Emotional Healing • Mystery/Adventure----
Formerly titled Bitter Like My Soul.
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- Part 1 of Manors and Masks